White Parents’ Message to Brown and Black Kids: You Are Not Ours
A white mother of a Black son is like a fly on the wall to other white people, bearing witness to their unconscious, unwitting racism.
Parenting
Robin DiAngelo Wants White People to Confront Their Racism
DAME talks with the author of ‘White Fragility’ about the real reasons white parents are reticent about discussing race and racism with their kids.
Can Pediatricians Convince Black Parents To Stop Spanking?
The American Academy of Pediatrics is now requiring doctors to reveal the dangers of hitting their kids. But how will a largely white profession break through Black families’ skepticism of their scientific scholarship?
We Need Boys to Dismantle the Patriarchy
As masculinist politics sweeps across the globe, raising boys to be feminists isn’t merely a good idea. It's a necessity.
What Has Been Making My Kids So Sick?
Exposure to the chemical chlorpyrifos, which is in flea bombs, may have caused birth defects in the writer’s children. Now she’s fighting to uncover the truth to protect other families.
For Black Children, Schools Are Intimidation Zones
With policing and paddling showing no signs of subsiding, the classroom is a space for destruction, not education, for students of color.
Why Are So Many Parents Picking Their Baby’s Sex?
Reproductive technology allows prospective parents to choose the sex of their baby before getting pregnant. But do the dangers outweigh the benefits?
Our Lives Are Worth More Than $1.18 a Pop
The NRA values American lives at just over a dollar. In the wake of Parkland, Florida mothers and children, the fiercest gun-control activists, are engaged in a multi-pronged battle to trade bulletproof backpacks for real security.
Birth Needs a #MeToo Reckoning
The last thing a person giving birth should have to worry about is being violated or abused by a medical practitioner. And yet, it’s more common than you think.
The Realities of Parenting a Black Son
Motherhood is full of joy and heartbreak. But for a Black mother in America, it also means fiercely protecting her child by fending off an unrelenting onslaught of racism and ignorance.